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“Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.”

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Rainer Maria Rilke

German poet known for his profound poetry and epistolary works. Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry style is unique, often exploring themes such as loneliness, love, and religious faith. more

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“For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?”

May Moving Life Is Watches Seeing Spring Wheels Engines Artificial Limbs Artificial Life

Book:The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

“If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.”

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Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time”

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Author:Isaac Newton

“If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.”

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Author:Isaac Newton

“Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.”

People Mind Doe Self Facts Challenges Self Esteem Esteem Assumption Livelihood

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.”

Men Reason Numbers Violence Gender Violent Empowered

Author:Steven Pinker

“The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists”

Men World Action Politician Scientist Our Time Statesmen True Man

Author:W. H. Auden

“We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.”

Helping Earth Helping Others

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“Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't”

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Author:Wernher von Braun

“Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will be the discovery of Saddam's secret arsenal, probably in the basement of one his palaces.”

Running Secret Watches Discovery Machines Propaganda Saddam Palaces Bombing Arsenal Basements Baghdad

Author:John Pilger